Simeon Booker and Moses Newson Oral History Interview: Museum Object and Cultural History

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The oral history consists of seven digital files: 2011.174.31.1a, 2011.174.31.1b, 2011.174.31.1c, 2011.174.31.1d, 2011.174.31.1e, 2011.174.31.1f, and 2011.174.31.1g.

Simeon Booker and Moses Newson recall their early careers in journalism at several African American newspapers. Newson remembers covering school desegregation cases in Clinton, Tennessee and Hoxie, Arkansas, for the Memphis Tri-State Defender. Booker discusses covering the Emmett Till murder and the integration of Little Rock High School for Jet. They both remember covering the Freedom Rides and the March on Washington.

Materials, dates and provenance

• Date: July 13, 2011
• Created by: Civil Rights History Project, American, founded 2009
• Interview of: Simeon Booker, American, 1918 - 2017
• Interview of: Moses James Newson, American, born 1927
• Interviewed by: Joseph Mosnier Ph. D.
• Subject of: Tri-State Defender, American, founded 1951
• Subject of: Emmett Till, American, 1941 - 1955
• Subject of: Little Rock Central High School, American, founded 1927
• Subject of: March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, American, founded 1963
• Type: video recordings
• Type: oral histories
• Type: digital media - born digital
• Medium: digital
• Dimensions: Duration: 1 hr., 32 min., 24 sec.
• Dimensions: Total: 154.32 GB
• Place collected: Washington, District of Columbia, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Clinton, Anderson County, Tennessee, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Hoxie, Lawrence County, Arkansas, United States, North and Central America
• Place depicted: Little Rock, Oulaski County, Arkansas, United States, North and Central America
• Topic: African American
• Topic: American South
• Topic: Black Press
• Topic: Civil Rights
• Topic: Education
• Topic: Justice
• Topic: Law
• Topic: Mass media
• Object number: 2011.174.31.1a-g
• Credit Line: Collection of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in partnership with the American Folklife Center, Library of Congress
• Data Source: National Museum of African American History and Culture

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